How Much Money a Year Do You Get for Being a Telemarketer?
Telemarketers may get a bad rap for breaking into dinner conversations, using hard-sell techniques and disconnecting calls in the middle of a conversation, but the people employed in the profession perform a variety of functions such as raising money for charity, polling political opinion and selling products. To maximize the money earned each year, telemarketers should evaluate their location within the country and explore how several industries pay wages close to double the national median salary for their profession.
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National Numbers
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More than a quarter of a million telemarketers -- 288,760 by the count of the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- burned up the phone lines as of May 2010, when the BLS concluded its Occupational Employment and Wages survey. The BLS reported that the median salary for telemarketers was $22,310, with a range of $16,480 in the 10th percentile to $38,500 in the 90th percentile. BLS figures don't reflect bonuses or commissions, which telemarketers may receive based on performance.
Industry Report
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The business support services industry employed more telemarketers than all the other industries in the country combined and paid just over the median annual wage for the profession with salaries of $22,940. The next largest employer of telemarketers, management and technical consulting services firms, paid $27,970. It was metal and mineral merchant wholesalers who paid the highest salaries for telemarketers, at more than double the median wage, of $50,970. Telemarketers employed in the computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing industry also received significantly higher salaries, at $44,820. Office supply and stationery stores paid their telemarketers $41,230, while automotive parts and accessories stores paid an above average $40,400.
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Highest Salary States
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Telemarketers ringing off the East Coast earned higher salaries than the rest of their U.S. counterparts. Vermont's telemarketers had the highest salaries at the time of the BLS survey, earning $34,690. Employers in Massachusetts paid the second highest, with annual mean wages of $33,440. New Hampshire's telemarketers were close behind in third place, earning $33,310, while Connecticut telemarketers took in $31,930. Georgia placed fifth on the list, where telemarketers made $31,000.
State Numbers
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States with the highest clusters of telemarketers didn't pay the highest, but they all did pay at least slightly above the median. Florida, home to the most telemarketers in the country, paid annual mean wages of $23,490. California had the second biggest group of professionals in the field, earning $29,560. The third largest group of telemarketers was in Texas, earning $25,800. Telemarketers in Ohio, the fourth largest contingent, earned annual mean wages of $23,150. In New York, fifth place on the BLS list, telemarketers earned $27,430.
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